I thought it was a good production, though I'd certainly claim I've seen better. How much of that is down to my coming in almost halfway through is probably debatable. One thing I would say is that although I think Jaques is the most obvious Shakespeare substitute, I was really struck in this performance, where they seemed more obsessive about gender than in the other couple of productions of this one I'd scene, about the irony that the lead character is Rosalind, who gets to read the Shakesperian epilogue, and is front and centre, and gets to spend a lot of time pretending to be a man. Is all the gender-bending not simply a reference to Shakespeare attempting to write words for women?
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Date: 2005-07-09 10:10 am (UTC)TCH